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The Racine Journal-Times Sunday Bulletin from Racine, Wisconsin • Page 28

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BACINK SUNDAY BTTIiLETlN UnnAhf, Reptcmbw 14. lOHl Artist Don Snell, who came to New York from Texas, minded the baby while he directed his wife on the hanging of his paintings during Greenwich Village's Outdoor Art Show. Progress is encroaching on the oid and quaint streets of Greenwich Viilage. Here, a locai artist's is displayed against the giant furnaces of an apartment house under construction that will be a twin to the building in the Greenwich Village Purges the Beat Generation By Ward Cannei 'lower Manhattan Island forjmeanings: "At the bottom of lished poet, "they came downl 1 eight square blocks of wind-lyoiir personality looking us like a virus infection." I of the coolest jazz and the iBeatest poets, lured thousands squares down to gape and giggle and pay the minimum NEW YORK NEA) have just returned from an in- unbearably beatified by the discovery streets, cogmto tour of Greenwich V.l-, 40 lage and it is now safe for mcihas been a sanctuary for American writers, painters, compos-: is worthwhile; or beat by a' that society is a sham, jobs are for squares and only action- disconnected from-knowledge Where Serious Artists were watching pennies, the Beat seemed to have plenty to eat, places to live, time to spare. Where Serious Poets clenched to report: The Beat Generation and sculptors.

There is world too big to cope with andj their fists at still another re- been purged from the ranks of hardly an apartment, park; too dead to understand; or justljection slip from publishers, New York's Serious Artists bench or cafe table here that'plain deadbeat, shiftless andithe Beat writers were not only being published but worse, were being quoted. Within four months after We were just a family saloon," one pub owner said. "Then this thing hit and we were in business. I didn't like the music and I didn't understand the poetry, but we were in business." Conversations were beginning to crackle with the Beat lingo: "way out," "hip." "down." Everything was the and Writers. not done to the en -j destructive.

Mopping-up action. Even without definition, this undenvay. may take years to' had one focus in com- For the Village has also been mon: a tremendous capacity a citadel to the angry and for liquor, dope, all-night par In fact, the victory may have who have found it tics, sex. talk, jazz and travel. You could hardly go anywhere! If you wanted to be with it, been one of the most costly in society oni Published and Quoted I without hearing a Beat poetj acceptable in the cafe- the annals of Greenwich contagious standing -before a cool depots, to keep! land hopeful who are taking acase." said a sociologist reading his verses.

the girls interested, to be heard their arrival. Villagers greatest, the crazi- strangers in their own bistros, lowest. But one thing IS certain: thei recess from discipline beforelives in the Village, "of delu- Village has heard the trurnpet life begins. isions of squalor. They lived signahng its end as this citys; the I like pigs." quarantine of True Art and the.

Village that has seen every-' nation mecca for the at least twice saw some- discontent, thing new arrive. It climbed For the unlikely few dingy but venerable have never heard of Greenwich into grubby but hallowed Fast-Spreading Infection The infection spread fast, at all then you had to join them. The Beat set had out. Serious regulars say. out-rebelled, said a young, unpub- cafes, holding out the Raids by Police Slowly, and perhaps too late, Ithe Village struck back.

Vice mm and narcotics squad raids were Village, it is easy to locate OUf MOVe Beat culturally and Beat Generation" after another began to sPintually. I had come to New York. I By RUSS KIME ASXkS Recess from Discipline Literary critics are still try-, And then one morning re- It lies 3,000 miles due to define this movement. I I Pnl of Portugal and runs inland on: "Beat" seems to have several The Racine Chess Club, STATE SPEED TOURNAMENT! Pans, opened the fall season at Doug -I The 1958 Wisconsin ''f'' Francisco, its las Park last Monday nightlchampionship will be held with a short business meeting Hawthorne Glen, at 61st and range y. much of the spirit and the election of in Milwaukee this John Oberg was unanimouslyUfternoon at 1:30 p.m.

It is high-rent acclaimed president, as was ticipated that Racine will Tim Egan, vice-president; Russ vide five or six of the 30 creativity and re- Kime, secretarv-treasurer, and Grants expected the number of apart! Bernard Gill and Frank Butten -I cheap enough for the hoff. directors. Herman Zierke INTERZONAL TOURNAMENT unsuccessful is holds a permanent director-! The latest reports from week by week. Pruned Spare That Plant! Autumn Is a Crucial Season By Cynthia Lowry (AP Newsfenluresi CHAPPAQUA. N.

Y. that cooler weather is returning, one jolly gentleman groundskeeper of my acquaintance is ready to leap energetically from his garage some Saturday morning, armed with pruning shears and hedge clippers. By noon, his lawn will, be strewn with the debris from shrubs and trees ranging from forsythia to rose of Sharon, from cutleaf maple to willow. Each tree and shrub will be neatly hacked into shape: most of them into round foliage balls, but some flat-topped. License for Pruning Somebody once suggested that pruning shears, like pistols, should be sold only to people who have a license to use them.

Certainly my snip and saw-happy friend would never qualify; one may prune wisely during every other season of the spring and summer. But unless there's ao broken limb or a split garden surgery from the li.st of autumnal chores. The reason is that plants, during their active growing season, store food for use later in the spring. Every 0 Yugoslavia, indicates The Villagers who are deter- ship. i Two "old" members, Dave that champion to stick to their and John Olsen Bobby Fischer and writing are moving to iwelcomed back, and two visi-have difficulty in qualifying low-rent areas of the tors from Kenosha, Duke Eng- for next year's world's more importantly, Idahl and Tom Kroll were prcs-'dates tournament, since of young artists have Arganian spent last yearimust win both his remaining; "one out to look for work.

I at Madison doing post-gradu-'games to finish in the top six Why? ate work, while Olsen. who who will qualify for the event. The explanation is summed was state junior champion in The candidate's event will be up by an old sculptor who was defeated many years ago: "These young-adult literary delinquents who called them- 1955, returns after three years! the stepping-stone to a 24 game of service in the Air Force, championship match with 1 Following the business meeting vvorld champion Botvinnik time one saws off a bough impromptu speed to be played in Beat have taught our a orancn or a cane at tnis was organized among'Paul Benko, a Hungarian and rebels the sad fact or the year It takes away part, present, and Arganianjugee now playing for the U. S.i that one may think himself and Olsen, along with Artjis accorded a good chance of emancipated when he is merely finishing among the leaders in the present event. The other Jim Sherwin, is of the plant's spring food supply- In the case of spring-blooming shrubs, it also cuts off next year's flowers.

These Domsky, topped the field. The final standings: 1. ArRRnlan ...4 Biilenhoff 2. Ol.ien 4 'a. Mike Dom.skT 4 plants make next year bios- lo.

EnKdahi unbuttoned." 2 5 American, soms on this year's growth. (My autumnal-pruning friend has become so disgusted about the failure of his forsythia to bloom that he's gradually digging them all out.) Other Chores Certainly, most of us have enough to do during the cool S.Zlerk'e 3 U. Kroll 6. Q. Buttcnlioff 2.5 tin scnEnri.E Sept.

speed tournami'nt. Hawthorn Olen, MUwaukcf. Sept. dale. Sept.

tournament Sept. tournament. Oct. 6- County tournament Ort. tournameiil, Oct.

20-Countv touriiamprit. nrt. 21-rnui)ty tournanienl Nov. lournamenl Mciv. 10 C'liv IdurriBinrtit Nov.

date, i Icuiriiament 1 28, 211. 30 North Crnlral Open er autumn weather WlthOUtl Tournament In Milwnukie I 13ec. tournament. well down the list. CLUB RATINGS As is customary in the first column of the season we publish the ratings of all players active during the past two sea- i sons.

1 (irandmaster 'R Rehwartu KIme 1407 Rev -rn .1 Weutner A i 'R RiKK I2.ll 'C. Reck 22 anil Forest Fires in U. S. Fall to Record Low WASHINGTON Forest fires throughout the U. S.

hit a record low of 8.3,400 in 1957, dropping below the 100,000 mark for the first time. There were 143,000 forest fires in 1956 and 200,800 in 1947. The area burned in 1957 was almost halved, dropping from 6,605,900 acres in 1956 to 3,409,000. Ten years ago fires burned 23.225,932 acres. adding pruning to our chores.

This is the season for planting is the time when trees and shrubs can best be set out. It is the time of the I spade and spading jfor digging what we used to 1. I 1 thamplon.shlp. 'call $10 holes for $5 plants', Mur. 2-Ciub (that's from the good old days when you could get some pretty nice specimens for $5).

Add this to repairing the lawn, transplanting perennial seedlings to permanent spots, 1 iHuiy open Tour- feeding, weeding, mowing Milwaukee. trimming the hedge (oneprun-; ing chore to be done as need-, ed) and the weekends are pretty busy. Evenings aren't muchj use any more; tlie days are get-j ting shorter. Dec. tournament.

Oec. lournHmenl. for holidays on Uee most: Dec. 29. Jan.

tournament Jan, tournament. Jan. tournament Jan. "vs. Younu.suis.

Fi-b. 2-Club champlonslilp. Ki'b, chaiiiplon.slui Mar. 9 -Club champlonhhip. Mar.

champlnn Mar. minule tournament, Mur. 3()-Open (late, Apr. li -Handicap tournament, Apr. U-lIandlcap tournament.

Apr. 20-Handicap tournament. Aj)r. tournament. May 1, 2, 3 Stale tournament 771 A.

Mike 1234 'O, 717 Zemek 1219 i Ml. Webb TSi Ma-iler 'K. Henderson 1180 McDermid W)8 'n. Arganian 1148 'E. fiiiH R.

Kunz 1117 J. Balrd 805 P. Buttenholf 1107 L. 6U4 A. Domsky ..1088 Class PllU 1078 M.

Blerke 510 Arokj 1075 I T. .475 J. OberK L. Sommer.s .457 J. BtucmpflR 1044 1 'Sey.

Mlrkes 430 Class Jilalr Ciib.sim Miner R. ODav li. narth A. SwelLsh Teuhner 103 Poetschke 1029: Ml, lilalr 3Cn Itcserve 'T Ciibsun Mn n. 0111 993 'IJ.

351 H. Zlcrke 989 i R. O'Dav 320 953 B. narth 319 achrader SIO A. 301 J.

Wells 903 I M. Swell.sh 288 J. Hvrd 889 I Did not plav In any tournament during the past year. Nearly 30,000 Canadians become citizens of the United States annually. Most Folks Are Careful Drivers If a careful driver, call me.

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fiiday Saturday Until I a.m. SAVEWAY FALL SALE GARDEN HOE Regular "ii: 80 Now $n10 Only GARDEN RAKE Regular $2.75 Now A 06 Only UP TO Long Handle SHOVEL Regular $5.98 Now Only 4 SPADING FORK Regular $3.35 Now $ij55 Only GARDEN SPADE Regular $2.75 Now A 06 Only HAND TOOLS Regular Kegu $0.00 Low As 69c PLENTY OF FREE PARKING Roll Roofing Wood Siding Insulation Johns-Mansvilla 90-lb. SlatR- kote. Green, red or black. Now 100' Only Roll Spruce Dolly Vardon Siding.

Thick, duroble and best looking. Now Only 12c per run- ing foot Johns-Monsville rock wool baft insulation. 15" 96" boftj, 1 1 -2 thick. 4 1 lC ft. FREE DELIVERY SERVICE SAVE UP TO NOW! GENUINE BAMBOO RAKES 18" Wide NOW Reg.

$7.50 ONLY 24" Wide NOW Reg. $2.00 ONLY GARDEN WHEELBARROW Sturdy All Metal Construction With Large Capacity Large Rubber Tire Lightweight Regular 13 49 NOW ONLY 99 SAVE NOW! Lawn Sprinkleri Lawn Soakers Grais Seed Fertiliser Plant Food and Sprays insecticides FREE ESTIMATING SERVICE DIMENSION LUMBER 2x4 'S only 10c running foot 2x6 'S only 15c running 2x8 'S only 20c running foot 2xlO 'S only 25c running foot 4x4's only 24c foot ALL NUMBER 1 WHITE FUR OR DOUGLAS FIR GRADED LUMBER Home Improyement Financing Johns-Mansville ROOF COATING 35c qt. CAULKING GUN Now $1189 Only I Cartridges 47o READY CRETE 90-lb. bog Now Only I VALUES GALORE! Many More Items Too Numerous to Mention All Items Subject to Prior Sale Buy Now While Stocks Lost YOUR DOLLARS STRETCH AT SAVEWAY! OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS 'TIL 9 P.M. WE MAKE KEYS 1 SAVEWAY 1 Open Doily Saturday LUMBER MILLWORK WALLPAPER PAINT Dial ME 2-5162 HARDWARE TOOLS TILE 1535 LAYARD AVE.

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Years Available:
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